Quotes About Perseverance

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

I keep repeating that wherever there is life, there is hope. One day my fate will change.

Faith isn't for the faint of heart. Both courage and naïveté are required. To grasp its art, you must look the other way when all the omens seem to say you will nog get what you desire, so, though it may be a cliché I put my faith in fire.

On long trek after Peetee hung caller, I concluded there was nothin' more I could do but play out game of death. Maybe, somehow, I'd earn us time. Time

Fiver hung onto my arm as if I was the last boat on the Lusitania.

It is difficulties that reveal a person's character,

On s'habitue plus facilement que prévue à ce qui paraît insoutenable.

Cela fini toujours ainsi, par les souvenirs. On pourrait croire que tout va s'arranger.

Sólo el silencio puede sustentar el avance de los supervivientes.

Acostumbramos con mayor facilidad de lo previsto a lo que parece insoportable

En el núcleo de la vida que se desmorona, todo permanece inmutable, en un ballet que no obedece a las tragedias de cada cual.

Elle savait mieux que personne qu'on pouvait enfouir au fond de soi la barbarie.

Convirtió los fracasos de los otros en su propio triunfo.

Pero llega un momento en que lo que queremos importa menos que lo que podemos conseguir.

Almost every night I say, "I wish I had done much better,

Only suffering and struggle, and all the dark experiences that come with them, will grow a soul big enough to hold our life. This happens when we ground ourselves in the blood, sweat, and tears of ordinary life.

Life lived with resolve and determination is life lived apart from surrender.

Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead

Damn the torpedoes, Drayton. Go Ahead! Jouett, full speed! (the actual quote tha he made, that is paraphrased:

Heart of oak are our ships,Heart of oak are our men:We always are ready;Steady, boys, steady;We'll fight, and we'll conquer again and again.

He never conquered polio, but he wrote a new narrative about his life that not only transformed him but won him the presidency.

Morale, my boy, is what counts. Man-power and tonnage and fire-power are important, of course, but morale has won every war in history. And our morale right now is higher than a cat's back—higher than any time since John Paul Jones—and getting higher by the day.

Damn the torpedoes, Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed! (frequently erroreously quoted as 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead')